Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both men got to their feet amid utter silence...
...subordinate priests last week commanded elderly Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, to write them out an Office for faith healing. They want him to prescribe what unctions to use, how to apply them, how to "lay on hands," what prayers to utter and in what order. Perforce the Archbishop, who is Anglican Primate of All England, will prepare such Office. But his version will endure only until the Canterbury House of Bishops prepares an official prescription. It will of course have no authenticity other than exemplary in the Archdiocese of York or other subdivisions of the Church of England...
When the Junior concentrating in History and Literature hands in his last blue-book for the mid-year period, he cannot utter the proverbial sigh and turn to the lighter things of life, since in less than three weeks another more important examination awaits him. On February sixteenth the department of History and Literature has scheduled a divisional on the Bible and Shakespeare...
...situation has reached an alarming stage in this country, what with the slandering of the nation's forefathers, and the spreading of communistic propaganda. It is but a step from shocking patriotic citizens with the outrageous statement that George Washington liked a strong glass of whiskey, to the utter destruction of ideals...
...What impressed me most in the book," said he "was, first, the immense erudition and, secondly, the utter detachment of the Joycean standpoint, a God's eye view of life, so to speak...